Is it possible to see Solar filaments/ loops in white light? Wasn't sure but above a sunspot near the edge was one...maybe.

Sorry, Matt, no. To see filaments/loops/prominences requires an H-a (hydrogen-alpha) setup. Start saving now because once you've seen them, you'll want a setup of your own. It happened to me and others, as well.

Thanks Dave, my imagination must have been working overtime. H-a...scope, got me thinking....and Eddgie I can see now why you are going totally bino. A Baddder MkV a couple of GPC's or a Binotron with powerswitch and a couple of pairs of eyepieces could be all one could want....Matt

My age may have something to do with it, but lately I just can't seem to get the same sharpness with monovision.

The move from the C14 to the 12" dob was driven in part by the ability to get a wide true field while binoviewing.

By this I mean that I could have gone to a 14" dob, but even though it would have been f/4.5, it is still longer than the 12".

At some point you have to make a compromise and my compromise was to take a bit less aperture for the wider true field I could get with binoviewers.

I miss the aperture on Globulars, but there are so many nice large clusters that now fit into the BV field that I felt it was a good tradeoff.

I have been looking at Solar wedges. The Baader is just to darned expensive.

The Lunt 1.25" wedge is only $220, but it does not take T2.

I was getting ready to buy another solar filter (Astrozap baader) but decided I would write to Lunt and ask them if they would not consider selling their 1.25" diagonal with a T2 top rather than a 1.25" eyepiece holder.

All of us binoviewer types with Maxbrights, Televue, or Mark V have to start asking vendors to offer a T2 thread option!!!

I am almost all bino now, and my atitude is very quickly becoming "If it does not work with T2, I don't want it."

I have two Mark Vs and I want to be able to move them back and forth and also the refractor won't reach focus without a GPC if I have to use an eyepeice holder and a 1.25" nose and I don't have any more room to cut the tube.

So, Lunt is out for me.

Baader is to big for me.. Loose to much apeture with the additional light path.

So I am going to just be happy with the Astrozap Baader film filter. I am sure there is a bit of gain with the wedge, but I am just not intresed in jumping though hoops to utilize it (putting in GPC, cutting tube, reducing apeture more than I have to, etc).